I just want to be sure we're on the same page. Is the full version of that: "If we were to decide, as a country, that it was bad, we could assign new orders to our federal, state, and local law enforcements officers to target and violate the property rights of people who engage with cryptocurrencies"?

In order to solve the ransomware problem, we create a new problem in the use of violence or the threat of violence in order to stop anyone from using crypto at all.

Money laundering is also illegal and it's still prolific. Buying weed is also illegal and it's still prolific.

Banning things like this just turns them into another laundering opportunity - where there's money to be made there's a way.